Cuts and Bruises - Sexy and Sexual

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Karen" <kchuplis at a...> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have tried not to say anything because I was hoping that
> > this thread would die on it's own. I find it innappropriate
> > to sexualize children. ...It's called pediphilia. ...
> > Maybe for those of you who wish to continue to sexual children
> > in this offensive manner, you could take this topic off list.
> >
> >   Sick to my stomach,
> >   Candle
> >
>
> Karen:
> 
> I didn't think anyone was being lascivious about it. Just 
> admiring what a dashing and handsome young man he is becoming
> in this last film. I'm sorry you see it that way ...IMO.
>

bboyminn:

I think we need to try and keep our perspective here. There is a BIG
difference between 'sexy' and 'sexual' (or sex). 

Eight year old girls find Jesse McCartney (the latest teen heartthrob)
very sexy, but by no means does that mean they actually want to have
sex with him. Nor does it mean that Jesse has any desire to exploit
that 'sexy' admiration.

The truth is that teens are at their peak of youth, beauty, vitality,
and sexual radiance, and a person would have to be blind not to see
and acknowledge that. But again, just because I see that great
vitality, doesn't mean I want to exploit it. 

There are many models and movie stars that I think are very sexy, but
that doesn't mean I actual want to, or even imagine, any personal
contact with them (let alone sexual contact) because reality could
never live up to my idealized vision of them. Just as the idealized
vision of an eight year old girl could never truly be lived up to by
Jesse McCartney (who is 18, by the way)

And for the record, while the Potter Teens are not of legal voting
age, they are all beyond the British age of sexual consent. So, even
sexual thoughts of them, which !!!NO ONE HERE!!! is professing, are
not pedophilia. 

We need to keep a clear and reasonable grip on the difference between
a distant and general admiration, and any actual intent, which I again
point out that NO ONE HERE has. A 40 year old acknowledging that any
of the Potter teens are 'sexy' is no different than an 8 year old
acknowledging that 18 year old Jesse McCartney is 'sexy'. It reflects
an observation and admiration, not a desire or intent.

Just a plea for a reasonable and balanced perspective.

Steve/bboyminn